Man faces 3 far-right cross-border terror plot charges

A MAN has been remanded into custody charged with terror offences linked to a cross-border police investigation into an alleged planned attack on a mosque.

- BY DAVID YOUNG

Connor Pollock, 38, from Croob Park, in Ballynahinch in Co Down, appeared before a district judge in Downpatrick Magistrates' Court on Thursday.

No application for bail was made during the short hearing before Judge Peter Magill.

The charges relate to an alleged plot by a group styling itself as the Irish Defence Army to attack a mosque and also target accommodation facilities used to house migrants.

The investigation into alleged violent far-right extremism is being conducted by police on both sides of the border.

Pollock is charged with three offences under the UK Terrorism Act.